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Exhibition of The European in African Art Anounced at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- “Through African Eyes: The European in African Art”, 1500 to Present is the first traveling art exhibition to examine 500 years of cultural and political interactions between the peoples of African and European outsiders. It is also the first to do so from African points-of-view. “Through African Eyes” will be on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) April 18–August 8, 2010. “Through African Eyes” provides riveting visual commentaries on five centuries of interactions between Africans and Europeans and Westerners—from early commercial relations to founding of European permanent settlements to European colonial rule to recent post-independence interactions with the West. On the one hand, the objects reflect subtle and not-so-subtle views of African artists about Europeans; on the other, they also document shifts in African cultural attitudes toward Europeans over the period. By casting the European as t